Nouellino de Masuccio Salernitano

Masuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century, Zanis, Bartholomaeus de, de Portesio, active 1486-1515, printer, Melzi, Gaetano, 1783-1851, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1503 · [Venetia, Impresso per Bertholomio de Zannis da Portese, 1503]. · 25 pictures

Nouellino by Masuccio Salernitano, a collection of Italian novella tales printed in Venice around 1503 by Bartholomaeus de Zanis da Portese for a literate readership. The woodcuts show a preacher before a crowd, a bedside scene with clerics, figures in conversation in an arcaded hall, and riders with a servant loading a chest, rendered in plain, hatched line.

Italy · Venice

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